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Makes cooking much more useful than in the vanilla game.
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More Useful Cooking
Description
Food in the vanilla game is pretty useless. During my 700 hours of gameplay I never cooked anything and the only times I ate food was to get it out of my inventory.
This simple mod changes the effects of most foods in the vanilla game so that cooking is much more useful. I tried to balance it so that it wouldn't be overpowered but still be possible to actually heal using food without having to gobble 10 beef steaks at the same time. However, you can only have effects from one food item active at any time. Eating more will just overwrite the existing effects. The effects can stack with normal alchemy effects though, so investing in alchemy is still very beneficial.
The newest version now requires Hearthfire and Dragonborn, because I'm too lazy to update multiple files. The original 1.0 installer version is still available and has separate modules, but I consider that version a bit too overpowered.
Detailed changes
For a full list of every changed item and their effects, see the table in the images tab.
Updates
v1.1: Stews and soups were too powerful, so their healing magnitude were halved. Also some other minor changes (see the full changelog).
Compatibility
Compatible with anything that doesn't touch vanilla food effects.
Uninstallation
This mod is safe to uninstall at any time. Remove any esp files that begin with CW_MoreUsefulCooking.
Description
Food in the vanilla game is pretty useless. During my 700 hours of gameplay I never cooked anything and the only times I ate food was to get it out of my inventory.
This simple mod changes the effects of most foods in the vanilla game so that cooking is much more useful. I tried to balance it so that it wouldn't be overpowered but still be possible to actually heal using food without having to gobble 10 beef steaks at the same time. However, you can only have effects from one food item active at any time. Eating more will just overwrite the existing effects. The effects can stack with normal alchemy effects though, so investing in alchemy is still very beneficial.
The newest version now requires Hearthfire and Dragonborn, because I'm too lazy to update multiple files. The original 1.0 installer version is still available and has separate modules, but I consider that version a bit too overpowered.
Detailed changes
- All types of cooked meat restore some health over a couple of seconds.
- Stews and soups restore 1 or 2 pts of health per second over 5 or 10 minutes.
- Meat stews are more effective and heal faster but for a shorter time.
- Vegetable stews heal slower but for a longer time.
- (These effects actually work correctly unlike the vanilla ones which modify healratemult)
- Sweet foods affect magicka.
- Simpler foods only have one effect.
- More complex foods have multiple, useful effects like Fortify Attack Speed or Carry Weight.
- Raw foods, vegetables, fruits and cheeses were left untouched. I don't think these items should offer much when consumed as such.
- Beverages were left untouched (didn't have time, maybe in the future?)
For a full list of every changed item and their effects, see the table in the images tab.
Updates
v1.1: Stews and soups were too powerful, so their healing magnitude were halved. Also some other minor changes (see the full changelog).
Compatibility
Compatible with anything that doesn't touch vanilla food effects.
Uninstallation
This mod is safe to uninstall at any time. Remove any esp files that begin with CW_MoreUsefulCooking.